Kenilworth : Retold for Children By Alice F. Jackson
by Sir Walter Scott
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None Given
- Seller
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West Jeddore, Nova Scotia, Canada
Item Price
A$29.36A$14.69
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About This Item
Edinburgh: T.C.& E.C. Jack, Ltd., 1940. Decorative cloth hard cover the paste on to the decorative front is clean and bright a little gloss left ther yet. There is some light shelf wear/Sunning to the spine . A faint colouring to the edges and mild foxing neither of which effects the print or beautiful water illustrations in any way. The binding is tight and good for another couple of hundred years or so. The previous careful owners signature is written with a fine hand to the front inside epp in India Ink Approx 1/4" by 1 1/2" long. Reprinted/First Thus 1940c.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/None Given. Illus. by Illustrated By H.J.Ford and the Paste on to the Front Boards. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Sir Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1771. Educated for the law, he obtained the office of sheriff-depute of Selkirkshire in 1799 and in 1806 the office of clerk of session, a post whose duties he fulfilled for some twenty-five years. His lifelong interest in Scottish antiquity and the ballads which recorded Scottish history led him to try his hand at narrative poems of adventure and action. The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion (1808), and The Lady of the Lake (1810) made his reputation as one of the leading poets of his time. A novel, Waverley , which he had begun in 1805, was published anonymously in 1814. Subsequent novels appeared with the note “by the author of Waverley”; hence his novels often are called collectively “the Waverley novels.” Some of the most famous of these are Old Mortality (1816), Rob Roy (1817), Ivanhoe (1819), Kenilworth (1821), and Quentin Durward (1823). In recognition of his literary work Scott was made a baronet in 1819. During his last years he held various official positions and published biographies, editions of Swift and Dryden, tales, lyric poetry, and various studies of history and antiquity. He died in 1832.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mulberry Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004218
- Title
- Kenilworth : Retold for Children By Alice F. Jackson
- Author
- Sir Walter Scott
- Illustrator
- Illustrated By H.J.Ford and the Paste on to the Front Boards
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None Given
- Edition
- Reprinted/First Thus 1940c.
- Publisher
- T.C.& E.C. Jack, Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1940
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics;
- Size
- 8vo
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